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A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them. Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant to the German parliament, says the security flaws allow someone to seize and clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to create a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it. Grunwald says he's succeeded in sabotaging two passport readers made by different vendors by cloning a passport chip, then modifying the JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified image crashed the readers, which suggests they could be vulnerable to a code-injection exploit that might, for example, reprogram a reader to approve expired or forged passports.
Jeff Thelen's Blog
Hi everybody. I'm back from really slacking off from the blog over the holidays. This week, it's just a few random thoughts. How many people are sick at your home, office or school? Seems like everyone in this newsroom is fighting some sort of bug right now. My symptoms are a sore throat, tiredness and aches and pains. I have no congestion, but my nose only runs at night. Wierd, isn't it? Alison Struve blows her nose so much she sounds like a foghorn. Stephanie Luisier and chief photographer Randy Bise both have that "sick sound" when they talk. Was it just me or did the Badgers seem a little unfocused and unprepared for their bowl game? Perhaps it's the long layoff between their last regular season game and the contest on January 1. It was a sort of a fun game to watch, even if it was rather sloppily played.
Veterans battling homelessness
At the end of Steele's military career, he said his addiction began to get the best of him. He watched his life spiral downward as he tested positive during a drug screen around 1982. When a fellow air-traffic controller shot himself in the head with Steele's gun, Steele's life only grew more difficult. "That incident sure didn't help me," he said. Addictions grew worse and followed Steele when he ended his military career. Back to civilian life As a civilian, Steele said he still suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, something he believes most veterans deal with after serving in the military. "When (veterans) get out of the military, it's like 'Now what do I do?' " Steele said. "They can't see anything beyond the military." Jon Shadrach, 49, a Marine Corps veteran and like Steele a Mission resident, knows how it feels to leave the military with a sense of emptiness when veterans return to civilian life.
Making waves about on-ship smoking
It's a pity people don't have anything other than this to complain about! Had these people been using very abusive language and behaving in a disorderly fashion under the influence of excess alcohol, I imagine Mr Sankey would not have spent time writing this letter - after all, these things are far far less anti-social and dangerous than smoking tobacco outdoors on deck! Wherever smokers go now, they are penalised, insulted, complained about, made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Tobacco smokers are being treated worse than any other minority group - hardened criminals included!! Now that Mr Sankey and his pals are in charge - what next?!! .
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Violinist Joshua Bell may be on the young side, but he has a ...
Seeing violinist Joshua Bell onstage with his grunge mop-top and puffy, untucked shirt, you might think he's the hippest thing in classical music. How many concert fiddlers can you name who have been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People," Glamour's "One of the IT Men of the Millennium" and Men's Health Guide to Style's "Red Hot Right Now"? But what many people don't realize is that Bell's violin playing is a throwback to a tradition-steeped era, to a time in which "vocal" style and individual expression were uppermost. "His approach is much more Old World," said Michael Stern, who conducts this week's Kansas City Symphony who first heard Bell as a 14-year-old performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra. "He has a formidable technique, and there are not very many impediments to him on the instrument.
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